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16 hours ago, Honkman said:
Fresh Turmeric and Peppercorn Curry with Shrimp and Asparagus from Comfort by Ottolenghi - first you prepare the curry base by pureeing reconstituted dried red chilies, toasted white peppercorns and coriander seeds, shallots, garlic, fresh turmeric and cilantro stems. Then the paste gets roasted in coconut cream until nicely browned. Once done, you add coconut milk, light brown sugar and fish sauce and subsequently quickly cook asparagus, asparagus tips and shrimps. Served over rice and topped with a cucumber and ginger relish made by marinating overnight cucumber, ginger, fresno chili, cilantro stems and leaves in a mix of rice vinegar, water and sugar
That looks really good! I just picked up that cookbook last week, but have not had time to read it yet.
A jump off from a NYTimes cooking recipe for coconut-gochujang glazed chicken and broccoli. I added the whole can of coconut milk, which made it more saucy than glazed. Plus, I added garlic, lime juice, fish sauce, and cashews, and used broccolini instead of broccoli. So not the same recipe at all I guess haha
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On 9/10/2025 at 11:44 AM, KennethT said:
What's the reddish-orange drizzle over the rice with the tuna?
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Happy Birthday @Steve Irby. Your dinner at home looked delicious.
Monday's dinner was seared tuna with soy sipping sauce, rice, and a salad of lettuce and peppers, which were the only vegetables n the fridge.
Last night, miso broiled salmon in a coconut sauce with spinach and summer squash, and more rice
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Yesterday ended up being a total pouring rain washout, so no beach pictures. Our only foray from the house was when we went into town to attempt to have dinner at the local tavern. We walked in and encountered the rudest hostess I think I have ever had the displeasure of speaking with. This went beyond New England reserved to outright rudeness. Needless to say, we walked right back out. We ended up back at Viera on Main instead. Drinks (martini and phony Negroni)
A shared fritto misto
Swordfish with chickpea panisse and cauliflower puree
steak frites
Raspberry-strawberry bread pudding for dessert
That’s it for this visit. I have had enough restaurant food for a while. See you back on the dinner thread.
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15 hours ago, Katie Meadow said:
You had me at steamers sticking their necks out of the sand. Your crowd never seems to order them, Doesn't anyone like them? Of all the things I miss from the east coast that's almost at the top of my list. I just love them. And of course there are none here on the west coast. It's mostly a clam desert except for manilla clams, which are okay but tiny and can't match the little quahogs.
When I was a kid my family lived near the beach in Westerly RI, and my parents had friends who were fishermen. They would drop sacks of cull lobsters and extra clams off at the house for us often. I loved, loved, loved steamer clams. They were my favorite food. Then, one year, when I was about seven or eight, I ate three heaping bowls of steamers and two whole lobsters at a 4th of July family picnic. I got so sick! I have not really been able to enjoy steamers or lobster since. I still really love littleneck clams though. My husband orders steamers once in a while, as long as there’s someone to share them with — he had them at the Beachcomber last week.
Yesterday we went into town to go shopping. It was crowded, and we bought nothing except ice cream.Last night we celebrated my niece’s birthday a little early with a sushi dinner at Bluefins. Sister’s cocktail
Crispy tuna rice
Platter of sushi rolls that my niece selected for us to share
She had a bread pudding for dessert. It was too huge to finish!
We stopped at the lookout at the beach next to the house to check out the almost full moon after dinnerChatham Light
This morning we drove down to Chatham Bars Inn for Sunday breakfast. It was very foggy and damp. We have had great weather for the past few weeks so I cannot complain
Niece had waffles with fruit
Husband had the same thing he ordered when we stayed here a few weeks ago, poached eggs on sourdough with tomato and prosciutto
I had poached eggs on spicy ratatouille with manchego cheese
and sister had smoked salmon
It’s pouring rain now, so not much on the docket for today. Sister and niece are heading back to our home this afternoon, and husband and I have one more night here before going home tomorrow. Dinner tbd.
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We spent the afternoon at Monomoy again
You can go clamming here as long as you have a permit. There were steamers sticking right out of the sand at lowest tide
My sister and niece came back for the weekend. We decided to try a new to us place in town called Pates. I took photos of the menu (the lighting was tricky, sorry for the glare and shadows)
Bread with bean dip
Drinks. I don’t know what my sister and husband ordered, but my niece and I both had a watermelon-hibiscus mocktail. It was pretty good.
oysters
Two orders of tuna cones
Potato chip crusted cod
Scallops with sucotash
Pork chop with pork belly fried rice
Seafood pan roast
We ordered two desserts to share. A ‘snowball” (basically a hot fudge sundae with coconut)
and a coffee mousse
We were all stuffed!
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11 hours ago, weinoo said:
There's a Hopper Museum and study center in Nyack, NY...https://www.edwardhopperhouse.org/hours-tours-admission.html, and there have been tours of his studio on Washington Square Park in NYC. But I don't see anything about the Hopper home in Truro.
Looks like you are right, from what I can find, it’s privately owned on a private dirt road. I guess the only way to see it now is from the beach.We have been hiking in the Momomoy Wildlife Preserve the last few days. It’s bird migration time, and we have been picking up lots of new birds with our Merlin apps. There are dedicated birders with massive camera equipment out there to catch the birds coming through. I’m too lazy to even carry my basic DSLR, let alone one of those giant telephoto lenses the serious birders have.
Here are a couple of pictures I took at low tide on Wednesday
Neither of us felt like much for dinner, so we just ordered a clam pizza from a shop in town. We got an arugula salad to put on top as well. It was fairly good.
We went back to Monomoy today and hiked another seven miles.
We were unsure of when exactly the tide would submerge the trail, so headed back out of there on the early side. We went to a different area of town for the sunset. This is Harding’s Beach.
After sunset we had dinner at Pisces. Martini for husband, n/a gin and tonic for meWe shared a tuna tartare appetizer
Then he had the same oyster spaghetti he ordered here in June
I had grilled swordfish with pesto ravioli
We shared a slice of key lime pie for dessert
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8 hours ago, weinoo said:
We actually tried to drive up to where the Hoppers had their home and studio in S. Truro (on Stephens Way), but couldn't get close. Most of the roads close to it are private.
https://www.capecodtimes.com/story/news/2013/07/28/a-look-at-hopper-s/44406145007/
You can see it well from the beach. We go to Fisher Beach often to beachcomb, and it’s down the beach to the left, maybe 1/2 mile or a little further. You have to go at off times in the summer unless you have a Truro sticker, but there’s parking for about six cars at Fisher. I thought there were guided tours of the studio available too, but maybe I had that info wrong.-
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3 hours ago, FauxPas said:
I had to do a search for this one, never heard of it before. 🙂
It's peanut butter and marshmallow cream, right?
Yes! He always picks the worst flavors. It has become a running joke in our family. One year he got jelly doughnut, another time he actually ordered one called dirt bomb! I think he does it because he knows I will never finish my normal flavor, so he can try something weird and then eat the rest of mine.
2 hours ago, weinoo said:
I love Hopper’s paintings. My favorite is Cottages at Wellfleet, since we have stayed in the house in the center of the painting many times. We don’t rent it anymore for many reasons, but we had lots of family celebrations there back in the day.
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Everyone ended up heading home yesterday, and my husband and I were feeling lazy, so we just walked down the street to Mac’s. It is a 2 minute walk. Drinks. I had a mocktail with jalepeno, lime and basil. Husband’s drink had watermelon, I think
we shared an order of oyster bao buns
and shrimp and scallop dumplings
Then I had a spice crusted tuna over soba noodles
and husband had halibut with lobster mashed potatoes
We went for a walk down to the pier after dinner. We discussed getting ice cream, but were too full. The sky was crazy. No filter on this photo, the sky really looked this red
It only lasted for a few minutes, then turned a more reasonable color
This morning we checked out of the Wellfleet house and headed up to Truro to do some exploring before going to Chatham. We visited Highland Light
and hiked a couple of easy trails with views of the dunes and ocean
We are staying at the same house we rented earlier this year, the one with the massive refrigerator. We stopped by the Chatham fish pier to buy fish for dinner, but the market was closed today. The seals were still milling around
We went to the other fish market in town, and I made warm lobster rolls
After dinner we walked into town and husband got the worst sounding ice cream, fluffernutter. The owner gave him a small scoop of the wild blueberry too, so he could try it.
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2 hours ago, KennethT said:
I think "teenage dirtbag" was their only hit...
Based on what I heard that does not surprise me 😂. That said they had a singalong of some of their other songs at one point and we could hear everyone singing the words so I guess they do have a fan base, even if it’s small. People definitely came in just to go to the festival.
Today’s our last full day in Wellfleet. My brother and my husband’s brother are going home today after the traffic off the Cape lightens up (it’s absolutely terrible right now). I am not sure what my sister and niece are doing. They might be leaving this afternoon, or they might be staying until tomorrow morning. My husband and I are going back to Chatham for a week starting tomorrow morning.
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Saturday my sister, niece and I stopped by the other breakfast restaurant in town, called Brekkies, which I think is an atrocious name. I really don’t like going out to breakfast, but they do, so I went along. Here’s the inside.
Sister’s pancakes
Niece’s waffle
We really needed to charge our car, and the closest level three charger is in Provincetown, so we ended up back there. We charged up, spent the afternoon at Herring Cove, then went for an early dinner at Front Street.
Fried zucchini blossoms to share
Calamari with garlic sauce
Shrimp scampi
Puttanesca with shrimp
Zuppa de pesce
Calamari fra diavolo
Gnocchi with truffle cream sauce
Niece had a bread pudding for dessert
We made it back to Herring Cove just in time for sunset
Today my husband and I did our usual harbor walk at low tide. I took this panorama of the houses on the beach. We’ve stayed in most of them at one point over the years.
We then went over to the ocean side to walk there. I tried putting my feet in but it was way too cold for me! There were a decent number of people swimming. They are hardier than me.
Dinner was at Mac’s Shack. It was even more crowded than usual because there was a music festival on the nearby pier tonight. Oysters
Spicy tuna mango martini
Halibut turadito
Fried clams
Fish and chips
Toro poke bowl and tuna roll with avocado, mango, and cream cheese for my niece
ritz cracker bluefish with creamed spinachscallops with bacon on corn bisque
We walked down to the pier after dinner to get some ice cream and check out how crowded the festival was. The sky looked pretty
The house we are renting is very close to the pier, so we walked back and listened to the concert from the deck. The headliner was a band called Wheatus. I thought I didn’t know them, until they started playing. Now I have “teenage dirtbag” stuck in my head 😂
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More of the usual today. This is the view of the tidal creek from the back deck of the house we are staying at.
We drove out and decided to try and get a parking spot at the Beachcomber for dinner. We lucked out. We not only got a parking space, we got an open table. The menu never changes
specials
Steamer clams
Fried clams (whole bellies, of course)
Caesar salad with grilled shrimpOyster po boy
Fish sandwich
We were seated next to the raw bar/steamer station and I snapped this picture in a quiet moment. Right after I took it, the guy on the left got 12 tickets.
Cahoon Hollow beach. The dune seems to erode more every year
Some of us wanted to go for a beach walk after dinner, so we headed over to Duck Harbor
It was too cloudy for a sunset, but we had a nice walk until lightning started up in clouds offshore
Everyone left the beach rather rapidly after that!
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Wednesday my husband and I walked into town to go to the farmers market.
I bought a couple jars of local honey to bring home: one early summer honey (lighter and sweeter), and one made from August flowers (darker and more potent)
I noticed we have an apple tree growing in the yard. I am not sure what type of apples they are (google image says they are Liberty apples) or if it’s allowed to pick them as a renter, so I am just leaving them there.
We spent the afternoon walking around the beach and pier near the house. We ended up having to jog back to the house because severe weather moved in very quickly. We had crazy lightning and even large hail. A beautiful rainbow appeared in the backyard after it was over.My sister and niece showed up and wanted to go to Mac’s Shack (of course). There was a 90 minute wait for a table. Drinks
It was very dark by the time we got food, so I only took a few pictures. Oysters
Fried cod cheeks
Seafood stew with clams, mussels, and scallops in a lobster broth
Halibut with lobster mashed potatoes
Yesterday my husband and I got up early and did a six mile walk. My niece and I then walked out to the little used bookstore in town. It was pretty depleted since they are closing for the year in a few weeks. My niece found a couple of things to buy, but the only thing I discovered was an entry for my annual “strangest book I spotted on the Cape” contest
My sister really wanted to go to dinner at Pepe’s in Provincetown. I am not a huge fan of this place but was overruled. We did go for a long walk at Herring Cove beach before dinner, which was nice.
The meal was, as I anticipated, pretty mediocre. Oysters Rockefeller (dry)
Grilled vegetables with burrata (I think they forgot to grill the vegetables. they were essentially raw)
Clam flatbread (did not try, but was told it was good)
Cod dish (lukewarm)
Clams with linguica (no comment from my brother, but he finished it so it must have been pretty good)
Halibut (overcooked, everything on the plate but the fish was cold)
Steak frites (overcooked)
Coconut cake. This was good. They charged $7 for the scoop of ice cream that was on the $16 slice of cake. Sigh. Hopefully we can skip this place for the next few years.
We barely made it back to the beach in time for sunset
Afterglow
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On 8/27/2025 at 8:45 AM, Smithy said:
That's quite a thick coating on the shrimp in the fried shrimp tacos in the post immediately above this one. Could you taste the shrimp? Can you describe the coating? (For instance - could you detect any breading or flavors?)
I'm not entirely a purist about oysters; I'd happily eat Oysters Rockefeller any time I could, for instance. However, I agree that a good oyster doesn't need much dressing up. What did the others think about oysters with tuna? Weren't you even tempted to try one? 🙃
They were battered and had a bang bang sauce on them, so not traditional flavors for a taco at all. The shrimp were also very large. The whole thing was messy to eat. I ended up taking it apart and using a knife and fork.
The tuna topped oysters were not a hit with my husband or his brother. They both felt that the flavors didn’t really work together, and the texture was weird. They did finish them though!
I’ll try and bring this trip food report up to date in the morning, it’s been a busy few days.
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On 8/25/2025 at 10:52 AM, KennethT said:
@liamsaunt Was that burger topped with deep fried avocado?!?
Yes, it was.
On 8/25/2025 at 11:59 AM, weinoo said:That's no lady - that's our niece! (Actually, it might not have even been a lady; after all, you're in Provincetown).
Flat shoes, no noticeable makeup… I think it was probably your niece 😀My sister and niece are coming to join us tomorrow, so we have been trying to go to the places my brother likes and my niece hates before they arrive. Yesterday that meant the Pearl
My husband ordered raw oysters topped with tuna. I am not sure why. I refused to try them. I am a raw oyster purist. Plain, thank you. He shared them with his brother.
Drinks. Blueberry sour mocktail, cranberry margarita, watermelon margaritaFried shrimp tacos
Fish and chips
Grilled swordfish
It was low tide when we left. These fisherman had to use a ladder to get into their boat
Today my husband and I got up early and went for a six mile walk while our respective brothers snoozed the morning away. We stopped in to a new breakfast spot called Cape to Cape. We both had lattes and my husband got an egg sandwich.
He said it was very good. I had already eaten before he woke up, so did not try anything from the food menu.
We visited a pond in town (the water was too cold to swim, but it was pretty) and then went to Indian Neck for another walk
Later we walked down to Mac’s Shack for some (plain!) oysters
and an order of jalepeno yellowtail sashimi
We then walked into town to check out Hatch’s fish market. They had bluefin tuna, so we bought some of that and grilled at home tonight.
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Yesterday was not much of a food day. I let my brother pick everything we did, and all he wanted was a drink at an outdoor bar in Provincetown called the Aqua Bar, and a burger for dinner. So that’s what we did. But first my husband and I went for a walk around Wellfleet. Some scenic views around town.
Uncle Tim’s bridge
Here’s the view from the Aqua Bar. My brother got his margarita and was happy.
Drinks at the burger restaurant. The orange one was mine. It was basically passion fruit juice.
My brother in law’s representative burger. I had a vegetarian burger. It was greasy, but again, my brother was happy.
I walked by @weinoo’s relative’s place, the Lady Slipper. It was only around 6pm and it was already packed! There was a lady at the door with a clipboard taking names for later entry. So they are doing well indeed!
I was full of mediocre vegetarian burger and wanted to go to the beach to walk it off, so we headed to Herring Cove.
We found another shipwreck!
Here’s a close up
The offshore storms are uncovering all sorts of treasures.
Sunset
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We are back in Wellfleet. We ended up deciding not to go to Martha’s Vineyard next week. The house we rented is in a very wooded area of Aquinnah, and there has been a lot of recent news coverage of the tick problem over there, with many people getting alpha gal syndrome from tick bites. I already have enough weird medical stuff to deal with and don’t need a dairy allergy to add to it. We may decide to stay the full two weeks in Wellfleet, or we may just go back home after our contract on the house we are currently in runs out a week from Tuesday. We will see.
Husband and I drove out and met up with my brother yesterday afternoon. We went for a beach walk on the harbor at low tide. The oyster fishers were working on the flats
I like walking at low tide because the sand is nice and packed down
We ate at the Bookstore, which is right across the street from the beach. Drinks: martini for husband, watermelon margarita for brother, phony Negroni for me
We shared some fried seafood
Husband had a lobster grilled cheese
I had a big bowl of mussels
Brother just got a tuna melt. No picture. After dinner we walked over to Mac’s on the Pier to pick up a seared tuna wrap for my husband’s brother, who was coming in later that evening. Most people were in line for ice cream. The food line was the short one on the left.
And then a final stop to pick up some gelato for the house at Gelato Joy.
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19 hours ago, liuzhou said:
I'm convinced the Chinese are convinced pizza is a type of cake. In many places, the base is more like sponge cake than bread; sweet and well, spongy. Also, they love to stick fruit on top.
The is below is described on the menu as "Fruit colourful pizza (seasonal fruit*)" and is of course, lathered with Japanese Kewpie sweet 'mayonnaise'. Curses on squeezy bottles and whoever introduced them to China. All sorts of inappropriate foods get covered by irrelevant squiggles.
* Watermelon, dragon fruit and pineapple. And we thought "Hawaiian Pizza" was bad.
Is this a sweet pizza meant to be a dessert? It's hard to tell from the picture. Does it have cheese on it? Or tomato sauce? It almost looks like the filling could be something like a sweet egg tart topped with fruit.
I hate the type of pizza that is popular where I live. It has an oily crust, and deliberately burnt edges, which is called "laced edges." I believe cheddar cheese is used on it as well. Overall, very unappetizing, at least to me.
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Vegetable risotto to try and clear out the crisper drawers in advance of today's CSA delivery. I made a stock from corn cobs, parmesan rinds, and some overly ripe tomatoes to use in the risotto. The risotto had corn and parmesan added at the end, and was topped with roasted zucchini, chopped tomatoes, basil, and a spinach puree.
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5 hours ago, Smithy said:
@liamsaunt, you visit beautiful places, and eat at wonderful-looking restaurants (some better than others, according to your reports). Still, I see those fishing boats come in and imagine myself itching to buy some catch(es) and cook at "home". I've only had the chance to do that once or twice. I'd be really torn between the fine variety of restaurants -- and the attendant benefits of having someone else clean up the mess -- and picking my own stuff to cook. Do you ever find yourself tempted to pick and cook a catch? Or is that too easy to do when you're at home anyway?
The fishing charters are very expensive, and the water out where they go is pretty rough, so I have not been tempted to go. I often see people fishing from the shore with pricy gear, but have never seen anyone catch anything 😂. I am happy to patronize the markets instead. I know in the off season you can go down to the fish piers and buy directly from the boats when they come in, but I don’t think that’s offered in the summer.
We drove home this morning, but are heading back out on the weekend for a couple more weeks. The first week will be in Wellfleet, and then we are going over to Martha’s Vineyard for a week. Final breakfast at the Inn. I was done with rich food!After we checked out of the hotel, we walked over to the fish pier to go to the market. It was extremely windy.
Boats lined up
I took a couple pictures of the fish case. We bought tuna for tomorrow night, and had black sea bass this evening (I’ll put that photo on the dinner thread)
Thats it for this visit.
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7 hours ago, TdeV said:
What delicious food!
If you go back to Stars would you please ask about Ode to Vegetables which is in the Farm Showcase section. If I'm reading correctly, the vegetables will come as Tempura, with various sauces. The vegetables are no doubt chosen for their freshness.
I'm really curious about what a likely selection of vegetables would be.
I did ask last night and they said it changes each evening. Last night it was squash blossoms, baby zucchini, and shisito peppers.2 hours ago, Katie Meadow said:@weinoo ....my thoughts exactly at first look. How could that not be intentional?
I guess opinions vary, but I don’t actually think they are that similar. The fonts are completely different. The Chatham logo has a wave, etc. I also don’t think “Stars” is a business name that you can copyright, since it’s a common term.
Breakfast menu
We both got the smoked salmon, and should have just shared a plate. We were not expecting it to be so big.
And then it was back to North Beach Island for more exploring. We walked eight miles today looking for interesting stuff.
We found a shipwreck! The piece we could see was about 25 feet long. I researched it when we got back to the resort and found news reports of it surfacing in 2010 and 2018. Some of the photos from those times showed a lot more of it. There’s apparently a whole layer of wood under this one that runs crosswise to these planks and everything is held together by wooden pegs.
More fish boats bringing in their catch in the afternoon
We went to the casual restaurant on property for dinner. Menu
Husband had a salted watermelon margarita. I was boring and stuck to club soda
We ordered the tuna appetizer to share. This was tasty.
Husband also wanted the fried calamari. This was massive! I think we ate about 25% of it. It was tasty, but if we had known it was going to be so large we would not have ordered it.
Husband got a lobster roll. He said it was nice, but he really prefers warm lobster rolls to the chilled version
I got the Thai cucumber salad with grilled shrimp added. I really liked this.
Dessert
We split the almond joy sundae. This was a bit of a bust. The ice cream was fairly melted and the tuile was way too sticky. We each had one bite and ditched it. Oh well, we probably did not need all that sugar anyway!
Post dinner beach walk views
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Dinner 2025
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Grilled chicken thighs with lime basil butter and corn, plus tomato salad and some grilled bread